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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Charles City (Virginia, United States) or search for Charles City (Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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To the people of the Congressional District Comprising the counties of Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick, Elizabeth City, and the Cities of Richmond and Williamsburg.--Fellow-Citizens: On the first Wednesday in November, as you are aware, there will be an election of members of the House of Representatives in the First Congress of the Confederate States, under the permanent Constitution.
I am a candidate for your suffrages.
Our Government is too new, and the troubles of the country too engrossing just now, to invite or even justify political dissensions and party divisions.
That the free and independent people of the Confederate States will, sooner or later, organize themselves into separate parties, with opposing principles, arising from an inevitable conflict of opinion, neither the teachings of history nor reflection upon causes and consequences will permit us to doubt.
But while party spirit, involved in the very essence of our Republ
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], "Scene" in a Church. (search)
To the voters of the counties
of Hanover, Henrico, Charles City, New Kent, Elizabeth City, James City, and York, and the Cities of Richmond and Williamsburg:
In response to a call made on me in the public press and in private letters, I announce myself a candidate to represent you in the House of Representatives of the Confederate Congress.
Although the active operations of the campaign will not cease in time for me to visit you before the election, yet I have no reason to suppose that they with interfere with the discharge of my duties as your representative in Congress, should it be your pleasure to call me to that body.
In such event, I shall endeavor to represent you with intelligence and fidelity.
Geo. W. Randolph.
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